An Unintended Social Experiment: Coats of Shallowness

With poignant, predictable, and unfortunately often petty but significant results.

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Very few are off the hook on this one. And I’m not entirely innocent either if I’m being honest — nobody is. We’re all guilty in simple, everyday kinds of ways. Sure, some surely far more than others, or at least on a bigger scale, platform, but of course, we all have done wrong. Period. We all fall short in one way or another, on a daily basis and always will.

This is primarily what I find so frustrating about so-called cancel culture and those who live to virtue signal online, all while contributing very little to justice, in any sense of the word or the cause they claimed to be of importance to them — it’s they expect us to believe they’ve never said or done something socially unacceptable, or offensive to one group or another. They never drunkenly or jokingly did/said something prejudiced, off-colored, racist, or passed judgment on someone based on something shallow. It’s bullshit.

To be perfectly clear, I’m not claiming you’re all racist, or anything of the sort. What I am saying is, I’d be more than willing to bet you pass prejudicial judgments on people you pass on the street, even if you don’t realize it or aren’t real enough to admit it. Part of me starts…